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The Sick Man by Vasili Maximov (1881) portrays a woman kneeling in prayer before the icon corner (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
An icon corner in Romania.

The icon corner, sacred corner or red corner, (Greek: εικονοστάσι) is a small Christian worship space prepared in the homes of Eastern Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Eastern Lutheran and Roman Catholic[1] Christians. It has pre-Christian roots[2] and also appears in homes of Rodnovers.[3] The analogous concept in Western Christianity is the home altar.

  1. ^ Pokuć 2014, p. 53–54.
  2. ^ Mosio 2012, p. 154.
  3. ^ Shizhenskiy 2017, p. 164.

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